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This week the Italian Government tried to make something happen. If reports were true, they had taken the Churchill-Roosevelt declaration as a cue to ask officially for participation in the European peace conference as a full-fledged United Nation...
...Harry von Zell had Adolphe Menjou at the mike. Von Zell: "Tell them about this great sight here tonight." Menjou: "Tell them? How on earth can I?" But the De Mille cue had been given and, suddenly, the wandering blue kleig lights turned from the flag-draped platform to focus on the concrete opening whence football teams usually come rushing out in triumph...
...destroyed or even driven back beyond the Seine, Paris would fall in General Ike Eisenhower's own good time. Perhaps the hour was already set. The actors in the drama of triumph were in the wings with him. Already in France General Charles de Gaulle awaited his entrance cue. The chariots were assembled-the tanks and trucks of General Jacques Leclerc's armored division which had rolled up to the rim of the city with the Americans. Other victory parade leaders were ready - among them General Joseph Pierre Koenig, the commander of France's underground army, which...
That night, as Senator Jackson prepared to read the President's letter, CBS Announcer John ("Charley") Daly popped the hidden mike out of its bag, spoke pre arranged cue words into it ("I want air"), and thrust it in front of the Senator...
...delegates rose on cue, shouted, lifted their Dewey placards. The band struck up Anchors Aweigh. Milling in the timehonored, slow elephants' dance of a floor parade, the delegates whistled, whooped, marched. The demonstration lasted three minutes-and then the bands and the organ took over, and eked it out to another four. It was probably the shortest such demonstration in any U.S. convention's history...